Chapter 20. Creating Images on the Fly and Handling Internet Programming

Welcome to Day 20! Many books on programming include discussions on graphics, and you might think that's impractical with JSP because the code is on the server, and the results in the browser. But in fact, you can create images on the server and send them to the browser, as you'll see today. You'll also get an introduction to Internet programming, including how to retrieve Web pages from the Web, and even how to create a mini-Web server using Java. Here are today's topics:

  • Creating images on the fly

  • Sending images back to the browser

  • Java drawing techniques

  • Embedding returned images in HTML documents

  • Reading Web documents directly from servers

  • Creating a mini-Web server

Today's ...

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